Are You a Journalist?

Articles

stuff.co.nz
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Growing up, first in Glasgow and later London, I was always surrounded by books and specifically by beautiful, colourful children's books. Despite this, some of my most memorable early reading came in a more fleeting form. Wherever we lived, my mother would have The Observer delivered and each Sunday, as soon as it hit the doormat with that familiar fump, me and my brother would deconstruct it, lie belly-down on the hall carpet and read.

crimereview.co.uk
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This book is written by a stalwart of BBC Radio 4's Today programme and the central characters include three fictional journalists working for the show: Carver, a veteran of many war zones, Patrick, a recent recruit, and Rob Mariscal, a senior producer.

theguardian.com
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Of all the many pieces of advice you get about how to write a book, almost no one tells you to write it on the Central line on your way home after a 14-hour night shift. But A Dying Breed was born that way: riding the red line from west to east on the London Underground.

Selecting a term

Phrases (e.g. "cloud computing") — use quotes to keep the terms together

Twitter handles (e.g. @username) — returns those who have mentioned or replied to
given user

Names (e.g. "David Pogue")

Hashtags (e.g. #sxsw, #london2012)

Bio details (e.g. vegan, Olympics, father)

Advanced terms

Muck Rack's Advanced Search allows for many boolean operators.

AND

Find results that mention multiple specified terms, use AND or
+. For example, ensure each result contains both Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg by
searching Musk AND Zuckerberg or Musk + Zuckerberg.

OR

Use the operators OR or , to broaden your search when you'd like either of
multiple terms to appear in results. (This is the default behavior of our search when no operators
are used). For example, results will contain either cake or cookie by searching cake OR cookie or cake,cookie

NOT

Use NOT or - to subtract results from your search. For
example, searching Disney will yield results about the Walt Disney Company as well as Walt Disney
World Resort. To exclude mentions of Disney World, search for Disney -World or Disney
NOT World.

Phrases

When using one of these operators with a phrase, enclose it in quotation marks. For example, you can
find results about smartphones excluding Apple's iPhone 4S by searching smartphone -"iPhone
4s".

Exact case matching or punctuation

If you're searching for a brand name or keyword that relies on specific punctuation marks or capitalization, you can
find results that match your exact query by adding matchcase: before the keyword you're searching for, like matchcase:E*TRADE .

Combining operators

Use parentheses to separate multiple
boolean phrases. For example, to find journalists talking about having fun in Disney World or
Disneyland, search for ("disney world" OR disneyland) AND fun.

Asterisk

An asterisk can be used to search for any variation of a root word truncated by the asterisk. For example, searching for admin* will return results for administrator, administration, administer, administered, etc.

Near

A near operator is an AND operator where you can control the distance between the words. You can vary the distance the near operation uses by adding a forward slash and number (between 0-99) such as strawberries NEAR/10 "whipped cream", which means the strawberries must exist within 10 words of "whipped cream".